That voice heard in Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" and the sound of Peter Frampton's guitar speaking like a human. Both are lumped together as "robot voices," but when you listen to them side-by-side, they ...

If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've probably heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. That's thanks to the vocoder, a device invented by Bell Labs, the research ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Half art book, half music nerd bathroom reading, Dave Tompkins' long-in-the-works history of the vocoder, "How to Wreck a Nice Beach," chronicles the sound synthesizing system's ...

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